The Wii is a marvelous device. Even though it’s constantly under fire by many in the gaming community that consider themselves “too hardcore” to bother themselves with “underpowered hardware,” it doesn’t seem to matter. Even I’ve been surprised by it all. I always expected the Wii to take a second-place spot behind the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 — on paper, it just seems so underwhelming. Is Nintendo the least bit fazed by this? Not at all.

Nintendo continues to laugh all the way to the bank as Wii shortages continued through yet a second Christmas season, and there’s still proof that people just can’t seem to get enough of what critics compare to discount-bin hardware with yesterday’s technology. Still, it marches on, oblivious to the criticism… and why wouldn’t it?

The control scheme may be starkly different, but the Wii isn’t exactly forging new territory on the hardware front.

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Everyone remember about a month ago when Nintendo announced their “Everyone’s Nintendo Channel”? It featured videos, interviews, and — seemingly most importantly — DS demos for wireless download. Yeah? Fantastic. Most people, on hearing about “Everyone’s Nintendo Channel” remarked that it was a fairly neat idea, and that it had potential, that being of full DS title downloads.

Those keen eyed oracles of inevitable development are soon to be rewarded with a round of watercooler gloatery, thanks to Reggie Fils-Aime. The New York Times reports the Nintendo exec of stating full DS title download via the Wii is soon to come and further makes mention of a “new DS device” saying specifically, “Mr. Fils-Amie said that future DS device will be more tightly integrated with its Wii console. Complete games as well as game samplers will be able to be downloaded into the Wii using its broadband connection, and then transferred.

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NGC France has published this pictures apparently taken from a screening at the games convention in Germany. I think the graphics look old for a next generation game and this was probably a video to entertain the people who assisted to the event.

Link | NGC France

Matt Casamassina, IGNCube editor in chief has hinted that an announcement concerning the Nintendo Revolution will be made in the next few days / weeks. Matt has a section at IGN called mailbag where he answers fan mail, recently he wrote this:

Q: When will more revolution news be announced?

A: Shortly after the Leipzig Games Convention (Aug 17th). I don’t have an exact time frame — it could be a day or a week, but I don’t expect it will be much longer.

After that:

Q: In your last mailbox you mentioned that there would be more information about the revolution shortly after Leipzig. How educated of a guess is this?

A: I wouldn’t call it a guess.

Expect more info on the revolution soon

The image above has been recently going around the web. It might be fake but i think a DS version of Soul Calibur wouldn´t be such a bad idea.

Via | Gamers Reports